It is an amalgam in the finest sense of the word, a musical alloy, a glorious meshing of thought and music across all genres and spectra. It is your friendly university radio station. A year ago I was like most of you, at least in the sense that I did not know much about WUSC, USC's own radio station. Officially, it is dedicated to nonprofit, noncommercial broadcasts, and as such it cannot
The first thing I gotta ask hipper-than-hip laptop rapper MC Lars, one of several acts on the Crocs Next Step Campus Tour, is whether he actually owns a pair of the comfy plastic kicks sponsoring his tour. "I don't," he admits via phone from rehearsals in Reno. "They say they'll hook me up, so that's cool." They'd better. After all, Lars has had to make nice with headliners Cartel, who
THIS JUST IN A Cursive Memory/Rocket To The Moon/Brighten/A Homecoming Menu: Thu., Oct. 16. 6:30 p.m., $8. Musica. The Alternate Routes: Wed., Oct. 1. 8:30 p.m., $10 (LiveNation.com or Ticketmaster). House of Blues. American Rockstar/Burning Vegas: The Josh Miktarian Memorial. Sunday, October 26. 7 p.m., $45 (LiveNation.com or Ticketmaster). House of Blues. Ascension of the Watchers
The sixth annual Adventures in Modern Music Festival-- put on by British experimental music mag The Wire and Chicago watering hole Empty Bottle -- will make its way to the Windy City venue next week, sporting as ever an impressive bill chock full of the some of the world's weirdest and wildest talents. Over the evenings of September 10-14, the Bottle will play host to the likes of
Music -- Daedalus, a musician from Los Angeles, makes gloriously weird electronic music that shares stylistic elements with dance music (breakbeats, rolling bass) but sounds, alternately, like a mind game and a pop confection. With Eliot Lipp and Machine Drum. Oxfam Cafe, Tufts University, 9 p.m. $5. Progressive Dinners -- North End Exposure guides diners through four courses at four
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